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Agecroft Partners has named Help for Children as the primary beneficiary of Gaining the Edge – 2016 Hedge Fund Investor Leadership Summit, taking place on 7 December in New York City.
Help for Children is a global foundation that provides grants to the most effective and efficient child abuse prevention and treatment interventions in six countries.
The foundation is supported by Hedge Funds Care and the broader alternative investment community.
Help For Children has a two-fold approach. The foundation supports proven methods that are effective in preventing and treating child abuse while also acting as venture philanthropists by supporting promising
- 18/10/2016
Dorsey, Wright & Associates’ John Lewis explains the virtues of using a relative strength methodology for a commodity rotation strategy and how it can give investors dynamic exposure to the commodities complex to generate excess returns.
Dorsey Wright & Associates (‘DWA’), a Nasdaq company and a provider of technical research analysis for more than 25 years, is applying its well-established proprietary relative strength methodology to the commodity markets.
In much the same way that DWA runs bespoke indexes that use a momentum factor to create sector rotation strategies within equities, it also has a proprietary model that applies the
- 18/10/2016
SALI Fund Services has appointed Jonas Katz as managing director and chief marketing officer.
Katz (pictured) will be responsible for expanding the firm’s relationships with investment managers and life insurance companies as SALI looks to expand its insurance‐dedicated fund (IDF) business.
This is SALI’s third key hire in 2016 following the appointments of director of due diligence Kris Studebaker and general counsel Chi Chang.
Katz joins SALI with more than 15 years of hedge fund and IDF industry experience. He most recently served as a principal with Forester Capital, a multi‐billion dollar fund of hedge funds in Greenwich,
- 18/10/2016
Laven Partners has appointed Nick Illsley as a director within the firm’s due diligence department.
With over 11 years of experience in finance of which more than seven years in the hedge fund space, Illsley (pictured) will work to address clients’ due diligence challenges within the current and changing operational and regulatory environment.
“We are pleased to add such an experienced professional to our team,” says Jerome Lussan, CEO and founder of Laven Partners. “Nick complements Laven Partners’ know-how in due diligence and enhances further the strength and depth of our due diligence process. Nick has a longstanding expertise
- 18/10/2016
One in eight (12 per cent) partners at hedge funds, private equity firms and other investment partnerships are now women, up from one in 10 (10 per cent) last year and the year before, according to DHR International.
DHR International’s analysis, based on data provided by the Financial Conduct Authority, shows that out of 3,509 partners at regulated firms, 405 were female in 2015. In 2014, there were 378 female partners out of a total of 3,666.
DHR International says the numbers suggest that hedge funds and private equity houses are outperforming the financial services sector as a whole
- 18/10/2016
Sanostro has teamed up with Avaloq to provide scalable foreign exchange (FX) robo-advisory solutions to Avaloq's customers.
Avaloq's customers will be able to implement FX hedging signals from leading quantitative managers on Sanostro's platform directly in high-net-worth customers' portfolios.
Sanostro's adapter allows a bank using the Avaloq Banking Suite to choose among the best quantitative managers, including external and in-house experts to manage FX risk within predefined limits, thus stabilising the asset base in a higher volatility environment and allowing portfolio managers to focus on their core investment competence, such as stock picking and bond selection.
- 18/10/2016
- 18/10/2016
Chicago-based RJ O'Brien & Associates (RJO) has appointed industry veteran Daniel Staniford as executive director, responsible for the firm's institutional business development in New York and London.
Staniford has more than two decades of experience in sales and management at some of the world's leading banks and financial services institutions.
He will operate out of RJO's New York office and travel regularly to the UK to further expand the firm's sales capabilities in the two key financial centres.
Gerald Corcoran, RJO chairman and chief executive officer, says: "Dan is highly respected in the industry, and he has a
- 18/10/2016
PIMCO has appointed Alice Cavalier as a senior vice president in the firm’s alternatives team.
Cavalier (pictured) will focus on the analysis of stressed and distressed investments in Europe and will be based in the firm’s London office.
Cavalier joins PIMCO’s established alternatives team of 110 investment professionals globally. Her hiring is part of the continued expansion of the firm’s alternatives investment platform and follows the hires of Paul Vosper, executive vice president and real estate strategist, and Lionel Laurant, executive vice president and distressed credit portfolio manager, earlier in the year.
Cavalier joins PIMCO from Bayside Capital, the
- 18/10/2016
The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark recorded gains of 0.91 per cent in September, marking the seventh successive month of positive performance as the industry delivered returns of 4.06 per cent through the third quarter.
These gains mark an improvement from both Q2 and Q1, in which they posted returns of 2.13 per cent and -0.81 per cent respectively.
It represents the best quarterly performance since Q1 2013, when the industry returned 4.10 per cent. In 2016 YTD, hedge funds have posted total gains of 5.41 per cent despite suffering loses at the beginning of the year.
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- 18/10/2016
By Joseph Bartolotta, Chief Marketing Officer, Meyler Capital
Control where they look and you’ll see results
Nature has done her usual efficient job of aligning structure with function. In the animal kingdom that means the location of an animal’s eyes is very closely related to how it gets its food (and how it tries to avoid becoming someone else’s food).
Monkeys, cats, hawks, dogs, people, and tigers have their eyes on the front of their head – giving them great forward vision and depth perception. They tend to be good hunters and have the ability to not only select their
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